Steve Randy Waldman on Nostr: The main problem with the failure of journalists and academics to abandon Twitter ...
The main problem with the failure of journalists and academics to abandon Twitter despite knowing that they should (the liberal professional condition is accepting a paycheck from sources we know perhaps we shouldn't) is that at some margin, Elon and his algorithm drive mainstream journalism in directions it otherwise wouldn't have gone, or at least not as far and as credulously.
I wonder whether the coverage given the lame attempt to "swift boat" of Tim Walz isn't an example of that in action.
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